We Don’t Have a Working Democracy. So What Happened and How Do We Fix It: Hey Whose Really Been Stealing the Votes? with Greg Palast, America’s wittiest (and wickedest) muckraker. An award-winning Guardian investigative journalist, he is causing crooked election officials all over the country to shiver in their shoes as they wait for a knock on their door from the FBI – thanks to his explosive exposes. Palast, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot...
Topics: Greg Palast, vote theft, U.S. elections voter suppression, Stacey Abrams
Update on I mmigrant Workers Terrorized in Mississippi ICE Workplace Raids with Marely Lopez, daughter of an immigrant worker family victimized by the Mississippi ICE raids who talks about the impact of this assault on herself, her family and her community now and in the future. and Bill Chandler, Executive Director of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, and Luis Espinoza, Central Mississippi Community Organizer Media throughout the country reported that while Trump was forcing...
Topics: mississippi workplace raids, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, immigration, ICE raids
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Putting the Movement Back into the Union Movement with Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants who denounced Trump’s government shutdown for endangering airline security and forcing workers to labor...
Topics: Sara Nelson Association of Flight Attendants, Judy Sheridan Gonzalez NYS Nurses Association, Bianca...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** All about ‘Medicare for All’ and Can it Provide Universal Access to Health Care! with Donald E. Moore, MD, is a primary care physician and is on the Board of Directors of the NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National...
Topics: Medicare for All, Senator Bernie Sanders, Physicians for a National Health Plan, New York State...
Reminiscent of Apartheid South Africa Trump and Netanyahu Form Unholy Alliance to Silence Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaibs Support of the Nonviolent Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement in Support of Palestinian People! with Ali Albunimah, Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine In a moving press conference, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar stood defiantly against the Israeli governments attempts to repress and silence them. They used...
Topics: Representative Rashida Tlaib, Representative Ilhan Omar, Ali Albunimah The Electronic Intifada,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Immigrant Workers Terrorized in Mississippi Raids By Trump’s ICE While He Grandstands in El Paso After “Triggering” White Nationalist Massacre! with Bill Chandler, Executive Director, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance...
Topics: mississippi ICE raids, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, ICE workplace raids Mississippi
Building Bridges : Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** “Ona Move” - we welcome home Janet Africa & Janine Africa, after 41 years, and won’t rest until all our political prisoners are free at last! with . sheros Janet Africa & Janine Africa, finally returned to the...
Topics: Thr MOVE 7, Janet and Janine Africa, Mumia Abu Jamal
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Labor is Raising the Roof in Nashville with Chris Brooks, Staff Writer and Organizer with Labor Notes magazine and Odessa Kelly, Nashville Organized for Action and Hope and Co-Chair of Stand Up Nashville and Anne...
Topics: Nashville unions, Standup Nashville, Chris Brooks Labor Notes, Wayfair workers strike for immigrants
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner: Armaments and Conflict in the Middle East with Mohamad Bazzi, journalism professor at New York University, a former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday and a former Council on Foreign Relations...
Topics: U.S. and Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Mohamad Bazzi Yemen and Iran
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Finally N.Y. State’s Farmworkers Prevail Over State’s Harvest of Shame with Jessica Ramos, N . Y . S Senator , Chair of Labor Committee and Jose Chapa , Justice for Farmworkers Legislative Campaign Coordinator, Rural...
Topics: nys farmworkers unions, Jessica Ramos NYS Senate, Jose Chapa Justice for Farmworkers, Farmworker...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Centerfold of Trump’s Reelection Campaign is About Ginning Up Hate & the Politics of Xenophobia! with Muzaffar Chishti , Director of the Migration Policy Institute at New York University School of Law, whose work...
Topics: Trump mass deportations, Trump immigration, Muzaffar Chishti, Trump refugees, Tom Saenz
Reverend Barber on the Poor People's Campaign and social change
Topic: Reverend William Barber
American Airlines Mechanics Are Threatening the “Bloodiest, Ugliest Battle” in Labor History with John Samuelsen, President, Transport Workers Union Mechanics at American Airlines are threatening to strike if a new contract isn’t negotiated, and the union president has declared that employees are prepared for the dispute to erupt. TWU president John Samuelsen confronted American Airlines president Robert Isom and told him that the union was prepared to strike. “I stand here to...
Topics: TWU American Airlines, John Samuelson American Airlines, Transport Workers Union American Airlines
Trump’s Mexico tariffs were always about white nationalism, and pose an incendiary threat to an imaginary border crisis, but they may also be about gaining leverage against Mexico and the Democrats seeking modifications in the upcoming USMCA trade agreement with Laura Carlsen, head of the Center for International Policy’s Americas Project in Mexico City and Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. and President of Just Foreign...
Topics: Trump Mexico Tariffs, Trump Central America, Refugees, Mexico Central america Refugees, Lopez...
Will we allow Sudan's military and their allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to crush the peoples movement for democracy? with Milton Allimadi, Prof. of African History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and founder of The Black Star News In scenes redolent of the Arab world's 2011 pro-democracy uprisings, an emboldened grass-roots protest movement had taken root in the heart of Sudan, its center, Khartoum, when the dreaded Janjaweed militia opened fire on the unarmed,...
Topics: Milton Allimdi Sudan, Black Star News, Sudan protests, Sudan military, Omar Hassan al-Bashir Sudan,...
Building Bridges National Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Grand Theft Pentagon: How It Steals from Our Nations Resources to Feed its Monster Wars! Bill Hartung, Director of the Arms & Security Project at the Center for International Policy, Jan R. Weinberg, Show Up! America, & Divest From The War Machine Coalition/CodePink and Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United discuss how the war economy drains our resources , and ways we can get active to turn it around, such as...
Topics: Bill Hartung, CodePink, military-industrial complex, Move the Money, War and Peace, military budget
Building Bridges : Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light, with Ellie Belew novelist and community historian gave me been a wonderful read with High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light, telling the story of...
Topics: Radical Women, Freedom Socialists, High Voltage Women, affirmative action Seattle, Ellie Belew,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Putting the Movement Back into the Labor Movement with Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is a...
Topics: Samantha Winslow, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor Notes, labor movement, Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes,...
Building Bridges Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg This is the right time to talk about why we need a new economic system and how to get there. This is the time to talk about and build socialism here and around the world . To meld practice and theory on this question are Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary, of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (“SAFTU”), founded in 2017, and which is the second largest of the country’s main trade union confederations , with at least 21...
Topics: Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), Gar Alperovitz, Democracy...
Building Bridges National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!: Special Report from Venezuela on May Day with William Camacaro, of the NYC Bolivarian Circle reporting from the barrios of Venezuela, where he has brought a delegation of U.S. people to observe the situation on the ground and deliver to the Venezuelan people the message that ‘we the people’ oppose the U.S. Government’s empire aggression and intervention. While Venezuela’s economic...
Topics: Juan Guaido Venezuela, Venezuela coup, Venezueala may day, Venezuela U.S. imperialism, Nicolás...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World: New Thinking and Movement Building with Joseph Gerson who serves as AFSC’s disarmament coordinator, as director of programs in New England, and as director of the Peace and Economic Security Program. Joseph plays a leading role in building collaborations among...
Topics: nuclear disarmament treaty, nuclear war Trump, nuclear arms race, Joe Gerson AFSC
ICE Terrorizes Immigrant Women Workers, Arresting More Than 280 in Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Leaving Families and Communities Devastated! with Felix Villalobos, Managing Attorney, RAICES, the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas. and Maria Yolisma Garcia, President, North Texas Dream Team More than 280, predominantly women, immigrant workers were detained after a workplace raid on an electronics repair company in Texas. The raid was the largest since Trump took...
Topics: Jeff Halper Israeli elections, ICE workplace raid Texas
RIP Medical Debt! As medical costs rise to unspeakable levels, so does un-payable medical debt, but we can stop the hemorrhaging and save the patient. with Co-Founder and Director/Education and Outreach RIP Medical Debt Jerry Aston and comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host John Oliver Medical debt has destroyed the financial stability of large segments of Americas most vulnerable communities: the sick, the elderly, the poor, and veterans. It also...
Topics: Medical debt, Jerry Aston medical debt, RIP Medical Debt, healthcare, Medicare for all
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., April 1, 2019, 7 - 8 pm EST **************************** "Let Them Eat Cake" Says Social Services Giant, CAMBA’s $484,000 A Year CEO, Joanne Oplustil, To Workers Who Have To Go On Food Stamps To Take Parental Leave! with striking Camba Legal Service (“CLS”) Workers Forced to the picket-line and chanting “no contract, no peace, overworked and over stressed - working at...
Topics: Camba Legal Services Union, DC 1707 pre-school teachers protest, Prof. Milton Allimadi, Cyclone...
Its a Matter of Life and Death: Thousands of New York Nurses Take to the Street In Threat of Major Strike Over Horrendous Working Conditions Which Seriously Impedes Patient Care with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN , NYSNA President, Montefiore Medical Center and Karine Raymond, RN NYSNA .Second Vice President, Montefiore Medical Center The 42,000 strong members of the New York State Nurses Association have been fighting for safe staffing, to keep hospitals open for care, to stop the Wall Street...
Topics: New York State Nurses Association, NYSNA, Safe Staffing Nurses, Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez NYSNA
Spectrum Cable Strikers At Two Year Mark Keep On Keeping On & Are Even Looking Into Forming A Workers' Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise with Troy Walcott, Local 3 IBEW Shop Steward and striking Spectrum Technician and Ray Reyes, striking Spectrum technician Some 1,800 workers represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, (“IBEW”), Local 3 struck Charter Spectrum Communications (“Spectrum”) , the company which bought out Time Warner Cable in May...
Topics: Local 3 IBEW, Charter Spectrum union busting, Cuomo Charter Spectrum, de Blasio Charter Spectrum,...
It’s a Matter of Life and Death: Thousands of New York Nurses Take to the Street In Threat of Major Strike Over Horrendous Working Conditions Which Seriously Impedes Patient Care with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN , NYSNA President, Montefiore Medical Center and NYSNA members The 42,000 strong members of the New York State Nurses Association have been fighting for safe staffing, to keep hospitals open for care, to stop the Wall Street attack on their patients, and win healthcare for...
Topics: NYS Nurses Association Safe Staffing, Spectrum strike cooperatives
Building Bridges National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Israel's War Against the Palestinians and It's Exportation of Weapons of Global Pacification with Jeff Halper, is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is the author of War Against the People: Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification We the people must break the old taboo on US-Israeli relations and Washington's permanent acquiescence in Israel's illegal...
Topics: Jeff Halper Israel and Palestine, Jeff Halper weapons, Jeff Halper policing
Daniel Ellsberg responds to the unjust jailing of whistleblower Chelsea Manning Daniel Ellsberg, the most important whistle-blower of the 20 th century, whose exposure of government lying and whose courage and sacrifice to reveal that truth to the public worked to end the heinous war in Viet Nam talks about one of the greatest whistle-blowers of the 21 st century, Chelsea Manning who paid dearly for her expose of government lies in Afghanistan, Iraq and torture in Guantanamo and served 7...
Topics: Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, whistleblowers, freedom of the press
The Politics of Immigration with Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson have been writing since 1990 about immigration, labor, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Their articles have appeared in Truthout, NACLA Report on the Americas, MRZine, The Huffington Post , and other publications. For over twenty years, they co-edited Weekly News Update on the Americas, an English-language bulletin covering grassroots news from Latin America. Guskin also edited a companion publication , Immigration News...
Topics: Politics of Immigration, Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, Trump immigration, Trump wall,...
“U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!” . Maria Luísa Mendonça, director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil . Kevin Zeese, a lawyer and political activist who currently serves as co-director of Popular Resistance . Roger Wareham, Secretary General of the International Association Against Torture and member of the December 12 th Movement " There is a great provocation led by the U.S. empire now in Venezuela. There's no doubt the world that it's President...
Topics: Venezuela U.S. coup, Maduro coup, Trump Venezuela coup, Venezuela economic sanctions Trump,...
No to U.S. Orchestrated Coup in Venezuela! No to Trump Imbuing Himself with the Power to Decide the Leader of a Sovereign Country! WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS? with Marc Weisbrot, is co-director with Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and is President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy. and Kevin Zeese, a lawyer and political activist who has worked on a wide range of issues beginning with ending the...
Topics: Venezuela U.S. coup, Maduro coup, Trump Venezuela coup, Venezuela economic sanctions Trump
We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Federal Workers Don’t Have To Be The Sacrificial Lambs for Trump’s Political Hijinks to Fund His Wall! with Hector Figueroa, President, Local 32BJ, SEIU "Almost a million workers are locked out or being forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. What is the Labor Movement waiting for? Go back with Fierce Urgency of NOW to talk with your Locals and International unions about ...
Topics: Hector Figueroa government shutdown, Hector Figueroa immigration reform, Trump government shutdown,...
The Revolutionary Martin Luther King: Confronting the Triple Evils of Racism, Wealth Inequality, Militarism! Stone monuments and tributes can’t adequately commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King. Genuine recognition of the man requires that we resolve to carry on his legacy of resistance to discrimination, the widening wealth divide, and war. Amidst terrible...
Topics: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Sales Rev. King, Dr. Clayborne Carson
Gender/Race & Poverty in America: How the politics of welfare makes us sick and tired of being sick and tired! Whatever Fannie Lou Hamer was talking about soon became an impassioned plea for a change in the system that exploited the Delta’s African-Americans. “All my life I’ve been sick and tired,” she shakes her head. “Now I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) who stood tall against the brutality, indignities,...
Topics: Gender poverty, women poverty, race poverty, Felicia Kornbluh poverty, welfare reform
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Criminalization of Poverty in America with Professor Peter Edelman, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law...
Topics: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Peter Edelman, Poverty U.S., Bail bonds
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Immigrants Are Welcome Here! Abolish ICE, Stop Deportations, Shut Detention Centers, Close the Camps, Release the Detainees NOW! with immigrant/migrant families and their supporters – the participants in the “Lights for...
Topics: Lights of Liberty, NYC Immigration Rally, Trump Immigration Policy, Trump Refugees, Ravi Ragbar
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Workers' Advice Center (WAC), A New Unionism Developing in Israel After a Decade of Organizing Palestinian Workers in the West Bank Settlements with Assaf Adiv is National Coordinator of the independent union WAC-Maan . He...
Topics: Workers Advice Center, Assaf Adiv, unions West Bank, Unions Palestine
Free John White: A Building Bridges exclusive with the recently convicted John White, attorney Frederick Brewington, Minister Kevin Mohammed, and the Rev. Al Sharpton directly from the mass support rally for John White at the Suffolk County Criminal Court Building(28:17) The right to protect one's home and family is as American as apple pie - or is it when it comes to African-Americas? The recent conviction for manslaughter in Suffolk County of John White, who awoke to find a mob of white...
Topics: civil rights, judicial misconduct, Rev, Al Sharpton, Suffolk County
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* Whatâs At Stake: The Supreme Court Ruled on Two of the Most Important Worker-Rights Cases In itâs History with Nicole Berner, SEIU Associate General Counsel and Richard Blum, Employment Law Project The Legal Aid Society Join us and our experts to analyze two of the most significant decisions by the Supreme Court ever regarding workers rights. The U.S. Supreme Court...
Topics: Hobby Lobby, Harris v Quinn, Supreme Court workers rights, public employees fair share fees, public...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Unions to Trump: âPay your hotel workers fair wages and recognize our union!â with Bethany Khan, Director of Communications, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 As far as Nevadaâs unions are concerned, hotel mogul-turned-Republican president elect Donald Trump should put his money where his mouth is, and pay his hotelâs workers in Las Vegas fair and living...
Topics: Driscoll boycott, San Quintin farmworkers, Baja California farmworkers, Ed Rosario LACLA, Al Rojas...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trump Las Vegas Hotel Workers Say Heâs Anti-Worker. Heâd Rather Say âYOUR FIREDâ than Allow Workers to Unionize! with Bethany Khan, Director of Communications, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Luis Carlos, Banquet food server, Trump Hotel Las Vergas After a resounding âYESâ vote to unionize with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, Trumpâs Hotel Las...
Topics: Trump hotel union, Culinary workers union, Ronald Reagan 1948, Trump union, Trump NLRB, Hotel...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., March 13, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** "A Day Without a Woman" For years, International Womenâs Day has gone largely unnoticed or was depoliticized. Most people no longer know that its roots lie in the struggle of women garment workers in the United States â or that a mobilization of women in Russia to oppose World War I in 1917 was the spark for an uprising that led to the overthrow of...
Topics: Day without a woman, womenâs strike, womenâs strike, Working Womenâs Day NYC.,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., January 26, 2015, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. Fired McDonald's Workers File Civil Rights Suit Claiming Racial Discrimination with Catherine Ruckelshaus, National Employment Law Project Several McDonaldâs workers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company alleging a âwidespread pattern of racial and sexual discrimination and harassmentâ at some stores. The suit, filed in the U.S....
Topics: Cuomo budget, green party Cuomo budget, Howie Hawkins Cuomo budget, Virginia McDonaldâs civil...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trumpâs Continuing War on Immigrants With Justin Flores , Vice President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Andrea Cristina Mercado, Campaign Director at the National Domestic Worker Alliance Carlos Jimenez, Executive Director Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO While a Federal Appeals Panel unanimously rejected President Trumpâs bid to reinstate his ban on travel...
Topics: Trump immigration executive order, Justin Flores farm labor immigration trump, Andrea Cristina...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:57 ******************************************** How To End The Recession with Robert Pollin, Economics Professor, & Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Mass. Co-author, "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs & Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy The recession is certainly here. The question is how to diminish its length and severity. A...
Topics: Robert Pollin, green economy, economic stimulus, green stimulus, Barack Obama, Allan Ramirez,...
Building Bridges, National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Palestinians Refuse To Be âCleansedâ From Their Land with . Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement (AIM) . Alice Walker, writer . Zwelinzima Vavi, Gen. Sec., Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) AIM leader Dennis Banks, renowned author Alice Walker, and South African labor leader Vavi came together to an international tribunal to grapple with Israelâs occupation of Palestine, and strategize how...
Topics: Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement, Alice Walker, Zwelinzima Vavi, COSATU, Palestine, Zionism,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Say His Name: TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN! Confronting Terror Attacks Against African-Americans, Resisting White Supremacy, Combating White Nationalism! Timothy Caughman, 66, was a former social worker, who, in his retirement years, had taken to recycling to keep busy and help pay his rent. Caughman was African-American, which made him a target for his professed killer,...
Topics: Timothy Caughman white terrorism, Timothy Caughman murder n.y.c., Black lives matter Timothy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (26:04) ******************************************** Whose Stuffed & Whoâs Starved: The Global Food Crisis with Raj Patel, Prof., African Studies Center ,UC Berkeley and Katarina Wahlberg, Social & Economic Policy Program Coordinator, Global Policy Forum, The high cost of rice and other staples around the world are provoking food riots. How does global capitalsâ restructuring of...
Topics: food crisis, food prices, inflation, farmers
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Institutional Racism in the U.S. labor market - What is to be done? with William Spriggs, Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the United States Department of Labor The so-called recovery of the US economy has not...
Topics: Bill Spriggs AFL-CO, African American unemployment, African American poverty, Home attendants New...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Teach the Children Well: The Battle for Public Education featuring Diane Ravitch, one of the foremost authorities on education in the U.S., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, âwhistle-blower extraordinaire,â author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and...
Topics: Diane Ravitch, New York State Budget Education, standardized testing Diane Ravitch, Charter schools...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, April 23, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** ACT UP N.Y. Commemorates 25th Anniversary By Taking To Wall Street With OWS To End Financial Crimes Against People With Aids & The 99% With Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Eric Sawyer, founding member ACT UP,...
Topics: ACT UP N.Y., financial transactions tax, aids, Bloomberg education, New York Communities, RWDSU...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition 27:43 Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Community Seeks Justice For Michael Lembhard, The Latest African-American Youth To Die By The Hands Of Newburgh Police With Lillie Howard, community activist whose grandson was killed by Newburgh police and Juanita King, cousin of Michael Lembhard, killed by Newburgh police Anger still rages in the latest police killing March 7, in the city of Newburgh, NY of...
Topics: Michael Lembhard, Newburgh police, Lillie Howard, Juanita King, Judy
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Beyond Resistance: A Peopleâs Movement for a Just World with Deborah Burger, Co-President of America's RN Union: National Nurses United, co-convener of the Beyond Resistance Summit and Sen. Bernie Sanders At a time of tremendous turmoil and progressive opportunity, thousands gathered to participate in a historic convening committed to social, racial and...
Topics: Bernie Sanders, Deborah Burger National Nurses United, Peopleâs Summit
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** How Trump and his key advisors stand to profit from the Dakota Access Pipeline with Antonia Juhasz, an American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist. She has authored three books: The Bush Agenda, The Tyranny of Oil, and Black Tide. Juhasz details what Donald Trumpâs win means for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, which would run...
Topics: Standing Rock Sioux, Dakota Access Pipeline, Dakota Access Trump, Antonia Juhasz Dakota Access
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Multiple Arrests As NY Protesters Rally Over Deadly Chicago, Minneapolis Police Shootings Millions March NYC and NYC Shut It Down â both of which are part of the Black Lives Matter movement held a rally in Washington Square Park decrying police violence against African-Americans. Protesters rallied and marched over recent deadly police shootings in Chicago of...
Topics: Police shootings, black lives matter, Laquan McDonald Chicago, Jamar Clark Minneapolis, Millions...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., January 9, 7 â 8 pm ***************************** STOP the Appointment of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General: Arrests end NAACP sit-in at Sessions' office with . Lizzetta McConnell, President Mobil, Alabama NAACP . Devon Crawford, Co-Chair of the, Al-Chemy-in-Color, graduate student at the University of Chicago Divinity School and 2016 NAACP-Humanity in Action Fellow Members of Congress must reject the...
Topics: Sessions nomination naacp, Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act Rick Sterling, Free...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -27:49 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Nationâs Largest RN Organization Says Healthcare Bill Cedes Too Much to Insurance Industry With Jean Ross, Co-President, National Nurses United National Nurses United, the nationâs largest union of registered nurses, criticized the healthcare bill passed by the U.S. Senate saying âit is tragic to see the promise from Washington this year for...
Topics: health care reform, single payer, National Nurses United, Unite--HERE, John Wilhelm, Richard...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report The National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** New York Has the Financial Muscle to Leverage to Combat Inequality with Connie Razza, Research Dir., Center for Popular Democracy and Arthur Cheliotes, Pres. Local 1180, Communication Workers of America New York is among the most unequal cities in the US. This inequality has become the most pressing issue in New York City and New York State. The good news is New Yorkers...
Topics: Connie Razza, Center for Popular Democracy, Arthur Cheliotes, Local 1180, Communication Workers of...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** New Jerseyâs Powerful Grassroots Peoples Organization for Progress Takes Bernie Sanders to Heart with Larry Hamm, veteran activist, Chairman the Peopleâs Organization for Progress POP has rarely departed from a long-standing policy of not supporting candidates for office and engaged in a rigorous debate and careful consideration before reaching its position on...
Topics: Larry Hamm Bernie Sanders, Peoples Organization for Progress Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matters...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:59 ************************* Fighting the Recession: The Stimulus and Beyond with Dr. William Spriggs, Chairman, Economics Department, Howard University and Randy Albelda, Author, "Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination" Commenting recently on the $150 billion economic stimulus package negotiated between the House of Representatives and Pres....
Topics: recession, safety net, katrina, gulf coast
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:17 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** Corporations Say, Why Bargain With Free Labor When Thereâs A Captive Labor At Our Disposal? with Rania Khalek, independent journalist, AlterNet Prison labor is every Corporation's dream - cheap labor, no sick leave, no time off, no holidays and employees that can be easily replaced. Of course, for human rights activists however, it's a...
Topics: Rania Khalek, Margaret Flowers, Medicare, Medicare for All, single payer
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Text Unveiled: Itâs Worse Than We Thought with Melinda St. Louis | International Campaigns Director Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch The long-awaited release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) revealed that the pact replicates many of the most controversial terms of past pacts that promote job offshoring...
Topics: TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, US trade agreements, free trade, Public Citizen's Global Trade...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., December 22, 2014, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. The Solitary Confinement of Youth in New York - A Civil Rights Violation Featuring Professor Alex Vitale, Member, NY Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Alexandra Korry, Chairperson, NY Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights *****************************. A Xmas Gift to the Wall Street Casino Congress Lets Big...
Topics: solitary confinement new york, NY Advisory Committee to the U.S.Alexandra Korry, Commission on...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Standing Rock Sioux Victory over Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) with Jeffrey Haas, who has an extensive background in mass defense from his days as a lawyer for Black Panthers and co-founder of the Peopleâs Law Office, a Chicago lawyersâ collective that rose up to meet its historical momentâthe defense of hundreds of Vietnam War protesters in the aftermath of...
Topics: Standing Rock Sioux, Dakota Access Pipeline, Dakota Access Pipeline Victory, Jeffrey Haas NDAPL...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Deadly Assault by Mexican Police on Striking Teachers Leaves 10 Dead, Dozens More Injured and 22 Disappeared. with Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, Center for International Policy There is an urgent situation facing teachers and their union, the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE/SNTE), in Mexico. On June 19, teachers in the town of...
Topics: Oaxaca teachers union, oaxaca teachers police killing, Mexican unions, Laura Carlsen
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************** A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out with Malalai Joya Malalai Joya, is an extraordinary young woman who helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah; and a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan. She became the youngest person elected to Afghanistanâs new Parliament, but in 2007 was...
Topics: Malalai Joya, A Woman Among Warlords, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan women
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Following $15/Hour Victories in CA, NY, PA, Underpaid Workers Intensify Call for $15, and Union Rights Nationwide with Record 300-City Strike, and Protests! Fast-food, home care, child care, airport, higher education, hospital and other underpaid workers in the Biggest-ever day of global strikes and protests demanded 15 dollars and hour and union rights for...
Topics: 15 and a union, minimum wage, McDonalds minimum wage, McDonalds union, Trump unions, Trump minimum...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., Sept 26, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** The Real Deal: we the people, wonât allow our voices to be drowned out by âReality TVâ staged debates that exclude our true concerns - weâll be there to tell it like it is! featuring We the People Amidst the mass mediaâs hoopla promoting of and selling the Clinton/Trump debate, as though it were a heavy weight boxing championship weâll bring you the real...
Topics: rikers island, fight for 15 clinton-trump debate hofstra, close rikers
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., August 22, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** Ainât I A Woman: how twenty-years after Bill Clinton pulled the safety net from under predominantly poor women and children theyâre left to sink to deeper destitution with Felicia Kornbluh is associate professor of history and gender, sexuality and womenâs studies at the University of Vermont and president of the faculty union, United Academics. Sheâs...
Topics: welfare reform, Felicia Kornbluh, poverty and wefare, women poverty, Workerâs Justice Project,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Building Trades Activists Break Mold in Protest of Trump with Gretchen Newsom, Political Director, IBEW Local 569, San Diego Building Trades activists from Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569 knew they had to do something. âWe couldnât let him come and speak to us and just sit there,â said William Stedham, an executive board member of the local. âIf we...
Topics: Trump unions, Trump construction unions, Gretchen Newsom IBEW Trump, Spectrum cable strike, Local 3...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Ainât I A Woman: how twenty-years after Bill Clinton pulled the safety net from under predominantly poor women and children theyâre left to sink to deeper destitution with Felicia Kornbluh is associate professor of history and gender, sexuality and womenâs studies at the University of Vermont and president of the faculty union, United Academics. Sheâs author...
Topics: President Clinton Welfare, Welfare Reform, Welfare and poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and welfare,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., June 18, 7 -8 pm EST ================================ The Poor Peopleâs Campaign Is Picking Up Steam with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber president of Repairers of the Breach. An author, preacher, and professor, he is chief architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement and The Poor Peoples Campaign and Rev. Graylan Hagler, senior pastor at the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., who...
Topics: The Heritage: Black Athletes Howard Bryant, Poor Peoples's Campaign Rev. Graylan Hagler, Rev....
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** National Union of Metalworkers: Fighting Political Corruption and Building a Socialist Movement in South Africa with Irvin Jim, General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the biggest single trade union in South Africa. He is a strong critic of the ruling African National Congress, which he accuses of failing to implement the...
Topics: Irvin Jim National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), South African Federation of Trade...
